Interstate 470 (I-470) is a 10.63-mile-long (17.1-kilometer) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-70 that bypasses the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, in the United States. It is the only auxiliary Interstate Highway in West Virginia. The western terminus of I-470 is an interchange with I-70 in Richland Township, Ohio. Passing southeast through rural Belmont County, I-470 crosses the Ohio River on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, entering Ohio County, West Virginia, at a complex three-level diamond interchange with concurrent highways U.S. Route 250 and West Virginia Route 2. After turning east towards Bethlehem, it terminates at I-70 in West Virginia near Elm Grove. The freeway was built between 1975 and 1983. On average, between 25,500 and 37,840 vehicles use the highway daily. The West Virginia portion of I-470 has been named the USS West Virginia Memorial Highway since December 2000, commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_470_%28Ohio%E2%80%93West_Virginia%29

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1893:

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_%28Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%29

1918:

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%9319%29

1938:

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for German mothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother

2014:

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, came to an end when police stormed the building, killing the perpetrator, but also one of the hostages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

prototype: 1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. 2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process. 3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code. 4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prototype

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.   --Arthur C. Clarke https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke